Ecclesiastical judgement: What about those saints who left their spouses or children for...

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The ways of God in the formation of saints are indeed mysterious. This was impressed upon me again by an article on Rose Hawthorne by Patricia Snow in the January issue of First Things. Under the title Hawthorne’s Daughter, Snow explores what she calls the “shadow” handing over Rose Hawthorne’s cause for canonization. That shadow is the set of circumstances under which she left her husband...

Ecclesiastical judgment: Saints who left spouse or children for consecrated life?